Fonts

How to use the provided fonts: 3 steps, 5 sec.

#1. First, be aware of the 21 fonts provided.

• If required, you can regenerate the font database mtxrun --script font --reload --force

#2. Give a name to the set of fonts you want to use and select a first font

• Use the command \definefontfamily. Sometimes, the name of the set of font is called the "typescript identifier"
• Let's take an example, for a Serif font, for which TeX practice is to refer to them as roman (=rm)

• \definefontfamily[MyFontIdentifier][rm][refcode to the serif font]

#3. Declare it as your default font family for your document

• Use the command with \setupbodyfont

• \setupbodyfont[MyFontIdentifier]

#4. Specify the font size

• \setupbodyfont[xxpt]

Example

• This basic input is typeset with the default font, Latin Modern:

  \setupbodyfont[14pt]
  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
  

  
• And by adding the two lines discussed above, and using the reference to Tex Gyre Pagella Serif font (texgyrepagella) we obtain:

  \definefontfamily [MyFontIdentifier] [rm] [texgyrepagella]
  \setupbodyfont[MyFontIdentifier]
  \setupbodyfont[14pt]
  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
  

  

1. • There is mainly 2 major kind of fonts you want to setup : serif and sans serif.

1. • the command \rm , as Roman, will switch to Serif font
   • the command \ss , as Sans Serif, will switch to Sans Serif font